Carlton Your Doorman (found unsold animated spin-off pilot for "Rhoda" CBS sitcom; 1980)

A still from the special; Carlton is on the right.

Status: Lost

In 1980, MTM Productions created a half-hour animated special, Carlton Your Doorman, based on the popular recurring unseen character from The Mary Tyler Moore Show's spin-off, Rhoda.

Carlton Your Doorman, being now the focus in a visual medium, was depicted as a lazy-voiced but well-meaning dimbulb doorman, voiced by Lorenzo Music (who also voiced Garfield in the 1980s, Peter Venkman in The Real Ghostbusters, and Tummy Gummy in Disney's Gummy Bears).

Music also produced this show, as he did many of the MTM series in that era.

The special featured "Carlton's daily habits, including flirting with joggers and making the rounds of local watering holes".

In a reference to its show of origin, some of the mail Carlton drops in the special reads 'Morgenstern', Rhoda character's last name.

This special was seemingly only broadcast once. It seems to be now sold as a 100$ DVD on Toonarific.